That there is our first look at The Lone Ranger, which after a complex and well-covered budgeting process is finally getting started. The picture sources from a Burckheimer tweet, and is more of a stylized promo still than a suggestion of what the film will look like. Still, we see the approach to the costumes here, and though the Ranger’s outifit looks like the usual tarted-up Hollywood gloss interpretation of a silly outifit, if that’s Tonto’s makeup the entire film one has to give them points for being bold.
Bold though it may be, it’s hard not to see some serious coasting on Jack Sparrow’s outfit in the design of this one. Mostly it’s the broad head-wrap and busy hair accessories, though with that face make-up Tonto is looking like an undead Jack Sparrow if anything. I’m sure it all maintains perfect fidelity to actual Native American garb of course, which would jibe with Depp’s efforts to pay tribute to their culture with this film.
As the film gets under way, Armie Hammer is already quite excited about the massive shoot to come, telling MTV that Depp is “fantastic,” and describing the tone of the film a bit more.
“It’s very much like a buddy comedy,” Hammer explained. “It’s sort of like these two guys agreeing, and disagreeing, and getting along and then not getting along. There’s all kind of stuff rolled into it. It’s like an action adventure [film], it takes place on the frontier so it’s not expressly like a Western with the twirling guns and stuff like that, but it’s going to be fun.”
So where on your radar of “fuck it” to “fuck yeah” does this land these days?
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I don’t know…Depp looks more emo than Native American. I half-expect him to ride back to his teepee to watch ANTICHRIST and MELANCHOLIA back-to-back.
I really hope that crow is still alive and just chills on his head the whole movie. Maybe making a wisecrack every once in a while, maybe just hangs out up there and looks around, then flies off at a thematic point.
A zany western comedy? Something smells like “Wild, Wild West.” Or shit. Synonymous either way.
This is more in the fuck it range for me. If that’s Depp’s idea of authentic, I’d like to see what inauthentic looks to him, because that get-up is border line offensive to me, and I don’t even know any native americans.
So wait…Deep got the roll for The Crow reboot?
I hope that crow is constantly taking a crap.
I think this scene takes place at a funeral or a funeral like setting.
Not taking the piss at all when i say that “a funeral like setting” is my new phrase of the day.
I imagine they were seconds away from rolling on the first scene and Depp yells, “GORE!!! WAIT, I GOT IT!!!!”. He then hauls ass to the prop trailer, walking out seconds later with the stuffed crow on his head. The crew all slowly shake their heads in unison thinking “and here we fucking go…”
Fuck it. This might be the movie where johnny “aint i quirky” Depp gets caught out. As the movie going populace collectively gasp themselves awake from the Pirates of the carrabean loop that is played directly into their psyche (directors cut)..and say but..but this is shite, he’s doing THAT thing again. Or 1 Billion first month profit, 2 sequels an a reboot. You Decide.
I have to say, that pic is pretty hilarious. Plenty of laughs throughout if Depp wears the dead bird on his head during the whole film.
There’s a lot more in this picture than that crow that’s hard to take seriously. This and the werewolf thing….if anyone needs me I’ll be on that fence.
This will be a big stinking pile of turds. Also: there are plenty of Native Americans who would love a role like this, blackface, redface, yellowface, Jeezy Creezy, it’s the 21st Century. Can no one sit Depp’s happy-ass down and told him “no”?
look i’m all for new interpretations of the character, but if Depp makes Tonto a drunk too, well thats just too close to racism. lol.
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